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Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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To whom can I put this question (with any hopes of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought... ?
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Suicide How would I know I don’t suffer any more, if I’m dead?
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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I have not a desire but a need for solitude.
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Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
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The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
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All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
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Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".
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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
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...language is never innocent.
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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